Elise Loves the Farm

Elise is becoming quite the little animal lover. She is not afraid to hug, tough, feed or otherwise interact with any creature she comes across. We went on a working sheep ranch tour this past weekend and Elise was in hog heaven. With real pig-a-lets even. She could not get enough of the baby lambs [...]

On Climbing

Elise comes into the sleeping room this morning and tells me “Mama, night night” and proceeds to climb up into Maia’s bed. A few minutes later she announces “I come down!” As she reaches the bottom, she loses her footing and I hear a small thud followed by “I fall down!” and turn to see [...]

Possession

And so it begins. Stella was playing with a toy on the changing table and Elise comes charging in, sees Stella and yells: “MY zhu-zhu pet! MY zhu-zhu pet!” She then takes her toy and charges out of the room again. I expect to hear a whole lot more “my” from now on. But on [...]

Little Bean

At 21 months and counting, Elise is having a language explosion. She’s putting together two-three word sentences. And this morning as I was pouring a cup of brow elixir for John and myself she came up with a new one: “Happy coffee (caw-caw) baby!” That’s my girl.